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Play You Home (Port Fortune #2) by Claudia Ambrose is NOW LIVE! Amazon: https://amazon.com/dp/B0H27VB2G3 Tropes you'll love: 🎸 Brooding (ok not really) rockstar 🎸 Second Chance Romance 🎸 Big city (DC) x small town (Port Fortune, Virginia) charm 🎸 Exes reunited 🎸 A wee bit of groveling 🎸 Celebrity x ordinary girl romance 🎸 A short, quick read Their love song was supposed to stay unfinished… It’s been said that you shouldn’t meet your idols. Sasha Linley did one better—she dated hers. Leaping from front row center to the lead singer’s bed was a fantasy straight out of a movie. Complete with the dramatic, cliff-hanger ending. Dahl Sturgiss is the first to admit he didn’t handle his rise to fame well. The glare of the spotlight, fueled by his band’s success, left his mental health in tatters. Too proud to admit he was struggling, he made a million bad decisions—like blocking Sasha everywhere instead of letting her see him at his worst. After two years, Sasha’s ...

FALL LOVE L.B. Dunbar Release Date: September 10 Buy Link: https://lbdunbar.com/book/fall-love/ Available in KU Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… 🍂reunited one-night stand 🧡pregnancy 🍂second chance 🧡opposites attract 🍂small town 🧡love over 40 🍂she-grump x sunshine 🧡she-blue collar x businessman Blurb Neve Snowe doesn't need to settle down. She is already settled in her small harbor town, with a cozy beach cottage and part ownership in the family-run auto repair shop. She doesn't want a man, but she likes them. And she has one golden rule: only sleep with flatlanders. You know, the guys who never intend to stay in Lovewell Landing, only use the coastal area for a brief holiday. And the last thing she desired was the unexpected . . . to be expecting. Tate Love spent his summers in Lovewell Landing as a teenager, but somehow he'd missed the beautiful girl who turned into a spunky woman, daring him to jump into the icy ocean one New Year's...

THE TRUTHS WE FIND Donna Bollen Release Date: September 2 Buy Link: https://a.co/d/023ujGWU Available in KU Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… 💼 Employee x Boss 💔 Betrayal & Redemption 🤐 Secrets x Break Up to Save Her 👑 Curvy Girl Rep & Female Empowerment 🫶 Found Family 💞 HEA 🔒 No Cheating Blurb She’s chasing the biggest story of her career. He’s her new boss... and the ex who shattered her heart. DANI I fought my way up the newsroom ladder. So when I'm passed over for a promotion, I tell myself I can handle it. Until my new boss walks in. Gavin. The man who ghosted me for ten years. The man I thought I would marry. Now I'm stuck working for my biggest mistake... while my possessive boyfriend and unfinished feelings threaten everything I’ve built. GAVIN I left to protect her. Keeping a secret that could destroy everything. Now I’m her boss... and still hopelessly in love with her. Office rules say she’s off limits. My heart says D...

Title: The Challenge: A Single Dad Romance Author: Penelope Ward Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance Tropes: Single Dad, Second Chance, Forced Proximity Friends to Lovers, Small Town, Found Family Release Date: August 30, 2026 BLURB From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward comes a new, STANDALONE contemporary romance… Nothing says welcome home like accidentally moving in with your first heartbreak…and his little girl. Coming back to my small Wyoming hometown was supposed to be temporary. I only planned to stay long enough to help my ailing mother and sort through the mess of my family’s old belongings. Instead, I somehow ended up living in Evan Ricci’s house. The single dad now owned a bunch of properties and one of them was the place I’d rented. He’d taken it off the market and moved in before I got there. I just never got the memo. Unfortunately, there was no other place in town available, so Evan let me stay. Evan—the guy my parents took in years a...

THE TROUBLE WITH FLINGS The Silvers at Silver Island Melissa Foster Releasing August 26, 2026 World Literary Press Blurb Sometimes you have to break all the rules to find everything you never knew you wanted. Come along for the fun, sexy ride as billionaire Fitz Silver pursues his biggest challenge yet—taming wild child Jennifer Stone. Loaded with heat, humor, and heart, this steamy, small-town, standalone romance is unputdownable. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a happily ever after that will leave you thinking about it long after you read the last page. Silver Island’s golden boy Fitz Silver keeps his business dealings clean, his affairs private, and fulfills every promise he makes. Infuriatingly so. He’s six-plus feet of gentleman in the streets and an unrelenting alpha in the sheets. I should know. I enjoyed a single scorching night in his bed over the summer. But contrary to Fitz being every woman’s fantasy, he’s my worst nightmare. I’m a risk taker, a rule breaker...

UNLEASHED BY EDEN Jade May Release Date: August 25 Buy Link: https://books2read.com/unleashedbyeden Available in KU Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… ✦ Brother’s Best Friend ✦ Rockstar Romance ✦ Second Chance ✦ Tour Life ✦ Secret Relationship ✦ Angst ✦ Slow Burn ✦ Free-Use Kink Blurb The worst part about loving a rock star isn’t the fame. It’s knowing the world will believe the lie before it ever asks for the truth. Whether I’m photographing music icons, or working at the gentlemen’s club, Eden, I’m the woman everyone wants. So when I’m hired to shoot Carter Ashford’s world tour documentary, I take the gig. Even if he ruined my life at seventeen and never looked back. My rules haven’t changed: Don’t touch the rock star. But Carter is still the only man who makes my hunger burn hotter than my fury. Onstage, he belongs to the world. Offstage, he’s mine. Until a tabloid blows his life wide open and pins the betrayal on me. I’ve survived worse than gossip—bu...

THE LONG WAY FOUND CJ Chambers Release Date: August 13 Buy Link: https://a.co/d/0aTMyuBM Available in KU Why you need to #ONECLICK this book... 🔥Second Chance 🔥Small Town 🔥Retired Military MMC 🔥Steamy MM Romance 🔥Return to Hometown 🔥First Loves Blurb Two decades ago, Jack Garrison boarded a plane for West Point and left Luke Calder behind. Luke stopped waiting. Eventually. Now, as he approaches forty, Luke has built a life he loves in Calder Ridge, the Colorado mountain town he's always called home. The past is finally where it belongs. Then Jack comes back. After a decorated Army career, a failed marriage, and a lifetime spent wondering about the boy he left behind, Jack plans only a brief stop. Everything changes when he sees Luke again. Confident. Stronger. Somehow even more handsome than Jack remembered. Their attraction flares to life again, but desire is the easy part. Heartache and distrust don't disappear overnight. What happens when the ...

Small Town, Big Storm (Home Ice Heroes #1) by Elise Faber is NOW LIVE! https://geni.us/SmallTownBigStorm What to expect: 🏡 Small Town Romance 👶 Secret baby ☀️ Grumpy/Sunshine 💔 Second chance 🏒 Hockey Romance I’ve taken pucks to the face… But nothing hits harder than hearing her call me Dad. I return to Cedar Hollow for my father’s funeral. Not for forgiveness. Not for Poppy. And definitely not for the daughter I never knew was mine. Poppy rebuilt her life without me—and she has every reason not to trust the man who left her behind. But the moment I meet my little girl, everything changes. Walking away isn’t an option anymore. They can warn her about me all they want. This time, I’m not leaving. I’ll burn this town to the ground before I lose them again. MY REVIEW Storm is back in his hometown, Cedar Hollow, where he never wanted to be again. He's going to his asshole father's funeral, then leaving. No need to stay here where all his worst memor...

BAD DECISIONS & BACK ROADS Zoe Forward Release Date: August 3 Buy Link: https://books2read.com/u/4A9pYk Why you need to #ONECLICK this book... 🔥small-town family feud 🔥second chance romance 🔥revenge-minded hero 🔥forced proximity 🔥veterinary romance Blurb The problem with bad decisions is you never stop wanting them. I used to be the rebellious girl from the wrong side of the fenceline. He was the local hellraiser nobody could tame. While our families carried on a feud older than indoor plumbing, we fell for each other. Then my vicious father found out. To save Timothy's life, I broke his heart and disappeared. Now over a decade later, I'm back as a large-animal veterinarian, working at his brother's clinic and treating everything from prize dairy cows to Timothy's homicidal llama. Avoiding him should be easy. It isn't. He's a single dad running two businesses, still infuriatingly irresistible, and determined to make me pay for eve...